He said “Pvt. Trujillo, everybody in this platoon is out of step but you.”

As you parse this sentence, don’t even think of construing the drill sergeant’s criticism as a bushel of compliments.

The sergeant who was so free with the comments, a man by the name of Brewster, actually was referring to someone else, another Trujillo. And besides, by that time I was no longer a private in the Gallup National Guard but what we called an Sp.3, a rank slightly higher than a measly private.